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Then-President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, was a regular worshipper at the chapel's morning services, and he hoped that a new, more esthetically attractive chapel would promote greater student interest and participation. But both students and alumni criticized the University's choice of memorial, pointing out that there was already a chapel (Appleton) in the Yard and that it was certainly adequate for the small number of students who attended services there...
...outside the memorial room, toward the back of the chapel, there is now a separate memorial plaque for those to whom the church could not be dedicated: "Harvard University has not forgotten her sons, Fritz Daur, Konrad Delbruck, Kurt Peters, Max Schneider, who under opposite standards gave their lives for their country...
...extreme detail, near and far, as a sort of metaphysical machine, a generator of intricate meanings about the life of the universe: birth, death, renewal, metamorphosis. His ambition (never fulfilled) was to do a cycle of religious murals, Four Times of Day; they would be installed in a special chapel and would form, Runge hoped, the nucleus of a new religious cult. The surviving studies for them, like Morning, 1803, are remarkably hard to decipher as doctrine. Yet that blue world of twining blossoms-Runge's amaryllises and lilies are the ancestors of art nouveau-of genii and weird...
...Broadway successes include the 1926 Pulitzer-prizewinning In Abraham's Bosom and the 1936 antiwar play Johnny Johnson, and who in 1937 wrote the historical spectacle The Lost Colony, the first of his 15 outdoor "symphonic dramas" that are staged across the country, mostly for summer tourists; in Chapel Hill...
...assured the company's owner-to-be, Marvin Davis, that "there are no Heaven 's Gates here." When Producer Ray Stark was asked what he would do with a self-indulgent director like Cimino, he shot back: "Fire him! Meanwhile, Michelangelo labored to repaint his Sistine Chapel. Five months later, an abridged Heaven's Gate has appeared-with Cimino and U.A. hoping the changes will make a difference...